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HRSOLTTTIONS 


Passed  al  a  meeting  of  thi  ht  of  Virginia  Enfant? 

ie  ,  itioi)  of  the  country  and  the  conduct  of  41 

war. 


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At  :i  u  t*te<  ritb    Virginia    [nfantry,  held   at  their 

Camp,  ti<  ■  •  Bermuda  Hundreds,  Jam  ,  1865,  the  following  : 

amble  and  resolutions  were  tmanimoui  ly  adopted  : 

Whereas  the  successes  which  Iiave  Reentry  attended  the  arms  of 
our  enemies,  in  their  mad  determination  to  subjugate  an  enlightened, 
christian   and  independent  people,  b  b  a  gloom   over  our  land ; 

and  whereas,  a  disposition  of  many  weak  hearted  and  weak  min 
counsellors  to  magnify  defeat  into  hopeless  disaster,  and  to  give  cur- 
rent publicity  to  rumors  questioning  the  unabated  fervor  of  the  vete- 
rans of  our  armies  in  support  of  the  sacred  cause  for  which  they  h 
sacrificed  every  comfort,  during  four  ;  continuous  warfare,  and 

which  they  still  live  to  defend,  has  generated  a  degree  of  despondencJ 
in  the  breasts  of  some  of  whom  we  mighl  ha^  i  id  better  thin 

and  deeming  an  unqualified  expression  of  our  opinion,  as  a  reginu  tit, 
and  a  similar  one  on  the  part  of  our  brothers  in  arms,  will  be  sufficient 
to  dispel  this  gloom,  and  to  check  and  extinguish  forever  I  he  wild 
rumors  which  have  found  too  rich  a  repasl  in  credulous  minds,  i'<n-  thv 
public  good ;  therefore, 

1,  Jxesolved,  That  a  Southern  soldier  o*  citizen,  who  for  any  other 
consideration  than  that  of  absolute  freedom  and  eternal  separation 
from  that  enemy  who  have  spared  no  species  of  insult  or  injury  that 
malice  could  devise,  would  lay  down  his  arms,  and  now  submit,  is  un- 
worthy to  breathe  the  air  of  freedom,  and  should,  with  his  posterity, 
be  the  serf  of  serfs  to  the  remotest  generation. 

9.  Reserved,  That  Ave  hereby  pledge  to  the  living,  and  to  those  who 
shall  come  after  us,  in  support  of  our  own  liberty,  and  their  ransom 
from  worse  than  Egyptian  bondage,  as  our  fathers  have  done  before 
us,  "our  lives,  our  fortunes  and  our  sacred  honor."  assuring  them  that 
it  is  better  to  die  freemen,  than  to  live  slaves. 

3.  liesolved,  That  we  have  unbounded  confidence  in  our  ability, 
under  the  guidance  of  an  over-ruling  Providence,  to  achieve  a  glorious 


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that  th<  ir  fathers,  our  honn 

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